Einführungsveranstaltungen der Anglistik/Amerikanistik für Studienanfänger im WS 2018/2019

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Manfred Krug, Christoph Houswitschka, Christa Jansohn, Christine Gerhardt, Pascal Fischer

Angaben:

Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 15.4.2019, 12:00 - 13:00, U7/01.05
Einzeltermin am 15.4.2019, 18:00 - 20:00, MG1/00.04
Einzeltermin am 16.4.2019, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 17.4.2019, 12:00 - 14:00, U5/01.22
Einzeltermin am 17.4.2019, 16:00 - 18:00, U5/00.24
Einzeltermin am 18.4.2019, 10:30 - 11:30, U9/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Montag, 15.04.2019
Einführungsveranstaltung für Bachelor-HF/NF/Lehrämter/Bachelor-BWL-WiPäd: Raum U7/01.05, 12-13 Uhr
Einstufungstest (verpflichtend für Studierende des Faches Anglistik/Amerikanistik/Englisch (Bachelor-HF/NF, Master, alle Lehrämter)): Raum MG1/00.04, 18-20 Uhr

Dienstag, 16.04.2019
Einführungstutorium für Bachelor-HF/NF: Raum U5/01.17, 18-20 Uhr

Mittwoch, 17.04.2019
Einführungstutorium für alle Lehrämter, BA-BWL-WiPäd: Raum U5/01.22, 12-14 Uhr
Einführungstutorium für Bachelor-HF/NF: Raum U5/00.24, 18-20 Uhr

Bibliotheksführung für Master: 9.45-11.00 Uhr (Treffpunkt vor der Teilbiliothek 4)

Donnerstag, 18.04.2019
Einführungsveranstaltung für Masterstudiengänge
Begrüßung: Raum U7/01.05, 9.00-10.00 Uhr
Facheinführung: Raum U9/01.11, 10.30-11.30 Uhr
Einführung in UnivIS, FlexNow, Virtuellen Campus und Onlinedienste: Raum U7/01.05, 13.00-15.00 Uhr

Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung Englische Literaturwissenschaft (Houswitschka)

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 5

Termine:

Di, 18:00 - 20:00, U9/02.01

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF mit BA-Arbeit): Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Betreuungsübung (2 ECTS)

BA Medieval Studies: Anglistik: Intensivierungsmodul: Literaturwissenschaft (5 ECTS), wenn die BA-Arbeit in Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird

MA English and American Studies: Module Master's Defence (4 ECTS), if the MA thesis is written in the department of English Literature (Prof. Houswitschka)

MA Medieval Studies: Anglistik: Intensivierungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft II (5 ECTS), wenn die MA-Arbeit in Englischer Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird

alle alten Studiengänge: Übung Literaturwissenschaft (begleitend zur Magister- oder Zulassungsarbeit)

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow!: 04.03.2019 (10:00) - 04.07.2019 (23:59)

Inhalt:

This course is addressed at students who are preparing or working at a final thesis in English or American Literature, be it a "Magisterarbeit", "Zulassungsarbeit", "BA-Arbeit" or Master's thesis. It is supposed to offer continuous support to students while preparing or writing their theses, and to give them the opportunity to present and discuss their work with other students. The course consists of plenary and individual sessions. A definite schedule will be set up in the first meeting of the class. There will be a site on the Virtual Campus; access will be given upon registration.
In the plenary sessions, we shall discuss general formal aspects and criteria of a thesis - such as possible topics, structure, suitable theoretical approaches. Participants will present (parts of) their thesis, offering it for discussion and feedback. The individual sessions consist of one-to-one tutorials in which you can discuss the argument, the progress and possible problems of your thesis with me. For students in the BA, MA and new teacher training programmes, who write their thesis in literary studies, this course provides the "Betreuungsübung". The presentation of the thesis in a plenary session (max. 30 minutes) will be graded and counts as "mündliche Modulteilprüfung" in the BA-programme. Students in the Magister- and old teacher training programmes are advised to take this course to support them while writing their theses. Depending on the native tongue of the participants, the course will be given in English or German.
The course will be taught every two weeks, with individual meetings in the weeks where we will have no common session.

History of Poetry I

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Vorlesung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Di, 16:00 - 18:00, U5/01.22

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
all modules including an obligatory/optional lecture (2 or 4 ECTS) in
Lehramt GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik incl. Studium Generale

MA English and American Studies

MA Berufliche Bildung

Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 04.03.2019 (10:00) - 04.07.2019 (10:00)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

This lecture belongs to a series of genre surveys which cover English literature from the Middle Ages to the present.

PhD Colloquium BaBoDreSie

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Seminar/Hauptseminar/Proseminar/Übung

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 27.4.2019, 8:00 - 22:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 28.4.2019, 8:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11

Spectre of Defeat: Post 9/11 War in Contemporary British Drama

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Mi, 18:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09):
freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY:
Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

MA English and American Studies:
Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)

Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies:
Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)

Erasmus and other visiting students:
Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 04.03.2019 (10:00) - 04.07.2019 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

The Tricycle Theatre (now Kiln Theatre) is well known for its commitment to staging plays on controversial political issues and military missions. Defeat is experienced in many different ways. Usually, it is the defeat of weaker combatants and/or civilians by the overwhelmingly usurping power of a military enemy that is often accompanied by war crimes. In the asymmetric wars of colonial and hegemonic powers, defeat is rarely solely military. Very often defeat is brought about for inevitable, political reasons following the exhausting and painful impact of legally or morally questionable military campaigns encountering guerilla tactics and civilians whose loyalties remain doubtful. This is the situation the British Army has found itself in during the wars in Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003). After the military successes of the liberation of the Falklands and Kuwait, fighting wars in the wake of 9/11 and invading Iraq on the grounds of forged evidence claiming to seize Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction brought about long and futile wars and the painful experience of defeat in spite of military superiority. Almost all these military events have been staged at the Tricycle Theatre. Among these Tribunal plays are productions about Nuremberg and Srebrenica, the Hutton Inquiry (Justifying War), and the Scott Army to Iraq Inquiry (Half the Picture). The Great Game Afghanistan introduces the theatre goer to 150 years of British interventions in Central Asia. The seminar focuses on The Great Game Afghanistan and other British plays about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001 in the context of British contemporary drama and politics.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Drama Texts:
Norton-Taylor, Richard, ed. Justifying War. Scenes from the Hutton Inquiry. London: Oberon Modern Plays, 2003.
Teevan, Colin. How Many Miles to Basra? London: Oberon Modern Plays, 2006.
Norton-Taylor, Richard, ed. Called to Account. The Indictment of Anthony Charles Lynton Blair for the Crime of Aggression Against Iraq. A Hearing. London: Oberon Modern Plays, 2007.
Bean, Richard et al. The Great Game Afghanistan. London: Oberon Modern Plays, 2009.
Burke, Gregory. The National Theatre of Scotland's Black Watch. London: Faber and Faber, 2010.
Moore, D.C. The Empire. London: Methuen, 2010.

Research Literature:
Angstrom, Jan and Isabelle Duyvesteyn, eds. Understanding Victory and Defeat in Contemporary War. London: Routledge, 2007.
Colleran, Jeanne. Theatre and War Theatrical Responses since 1991. London: Palgrave, 2012.
de Waal, Ariane. Theatre on Terror. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017.
Gupta, Suman. Imagining Iraq. Literature in English and the Iraq Invasion. London: Palgrave, 2011.
Hammond, Will and Dan Seward, eds. Verbatim, Verbatim. Contemporary Documentary Theatre.
Hopkirk, Peter. The Great Game. On Secret Service in High Asia. London: John Murray, 1990, 2006.
Ledwidge, Frank. Losing Small Wars: British Military Failure in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yale University Press, 2011.
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. The Culture of Defeat. On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery. London: Granta, 2003 (orig. in German 2001)

The Novel in the 1790s

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Studium Generale

Termine:

Do, 16:00 - 18:00, MG2/01.02
Einzeltermin am 14.6.2019, 14:00 - 17:00, U9/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09):
freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY:
Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

MA English and American Studies:
Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)

Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies:
Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)

Erasmus and other visiting students:
Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 04.03.2019 (10:00) - 04.07.2019 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

In this seminar we will read Jacobin and anti-Jacobin literature written in 1790s in the wake of the French Revolution and its impact on British politics in the 1790s. After Edmund Burke had published his book on The Revolution in France (1790), those who wanted to reform the English political institutions were under the suspicion of starting a revolution in England. The radicals were accused of sedition and high treason and prosecuted. On the other hand, the so-called anti-Jacobin novel and Hannah More's cheap repository tracts tried to popularise conservative and loyal belief systems in a similar way the radicals did with theirs. Literature became a means to distribute philosophical and political ideas and to educate the reading public appropriately. A third group of novels, such as those by Jane Austen, tried to keep out of politics altogether and to write as if the age of revolution had no influence on literature.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Although the focus will be on Jacobin literature, we will work on how political and philosophical ideas shaped various identities in the literature of the 1790s. Some of the authors read in this seminar will be William Godwin, John Thelwall, Hannah More, Jane Austen and other less known writers whose work is available in the Eighteenth Century Collection Online (ECCO). Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) Godwin, William. Caleb Williams (1794) Thelwall, John. The Daughter of Adoption (1801) More, Hannah. "History of Mr Fantom, the New-Fashioned Philosopher, and his Man William" (1795) Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice (written 1797, publ. 1813)